Motivational Quotes

Truth

The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it and ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.

- Churchill, Winston

Best Quotes about Truth

The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.

Churchill, Winston

If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.

Mann, Horace

Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

Say not,'I have found the truth,'but rather,'I have found a truth.'

Kahlil Gibran

The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

The basic truth of all things, as nearly as we may ever dream of determining and knowing this truth, is form, that which is, as it is. The way and shape of the thing no less than the thing itself.

Saroyan, William

Of course, it is the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.

Thatcher, Margaret

While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

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The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.

Twain, Mark

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Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.

Darrow, Clarence

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What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight.

Joubert, Joseph

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There's nothing you can know that isn't known.

Lennon, John

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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

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For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead...

Jefferson, Thomas

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If truth is beauty, then how come no one has their hair done in a library?

Tomlin, Lily

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Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.

Bradley, Francis H.

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Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

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Against my soul's pure truth why labour you to make it wander in an unknown field?

William Shakespeare

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Nothing is poorer than a truth expressed as it was thought. Committed to writing in such cases, it is not even a bad photograph. Truth wants to be startled abruptly, at one stroke, from her self-immersion, whether by uproar, music or cries for help.

Benjamin, Walter

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To be persuasive, we must be believable. To be believable, we must be credible. To be credible, we must be truthful.

Walters, Hellmut

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We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.

Hesiod

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Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Just because you can laugh doesn't mean you can't tell the truth. Truth is often the jester.

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Truth will come to light ... at the length, the truth will out.

William Shakespeare

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The fact, if they are there, speak for themselves.

Seabury, David

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They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

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Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide. In this sense, truth, even if it does not prevail in public, possesses an ineradicable primacy over all falsehoods.

Arendt, Hannah

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The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it.

Darrow, Clarence

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Mystical explanations are considered deep. The truth is that they are not even superficial.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

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If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.